Phillipa Burns
@phillipaburns.bsky.social
Consultant Clinical Scientist - Med Micro
Infection Research Group (IRG) Hull.
Interested in CF, AMR, application of Nanopore & diagnostics
Supportive of all in training ❤️
FRCPath via HSST 🧫🧬🥼
A mum that can run as fast as small children walk
Infection Research Group (IRG) Hull.
Interested in CF, AMR, application of Nanopore & diagnostics
Supportive of all in training ❤️
FRCPath via HSST 🧫🧬🥼
A mum that can run as fast as small children walk
So many friends and colleagues getting results today! Thinking of you all 😘#frcpath #thelastexam
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media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
So many friends and colleagues getting results today! Thinking of you all 😘#frcpath #thelastexam
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
#BMSSky
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week!
I’m penicillin this year.
The OG antibiotic!
Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week!
I’m penicillin this year.
The OG antibiotic!
Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)
It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
#BMSSky
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week!
I’m penicillin this year.
The OG antibiotic!
Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week!
I’m penicillin this year.
The OG antibiotic!
Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)
Let’s hope we learn from the marketing disaster that was plazomicin and we actually get this to bedsides
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Let’s hope we learn from the marketing disaster that was plazomicin and we actually get this to bedsides
#Idsky
#Microbiology
Friends in the USA / Canada
What is your national guidance for the laboratory processing of BAL fluid?!
In the UK we advise a semi quantitative culture to enumerate bacteria…..we have been told your guidance is culture of the centrifuged deposit.
All guidance appreciated…..
#Microbiology
Friends in the USA / Canada
What is your national guidance for the laboratory processing of BAL fluid?!
In the UK we advise a semi quantitative culture to enumerate bacteria…..we have been told your guidance is culture of the centrifuged deposit.
All guidance appreciated…..
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#Idsky
#Microbiology
Friends in the USA / Canada
What is your national guidance for the laboratory processing of BAL fluid?!
In the UK we advise a semi quantitative culture to enumerate bacteria…..we have been told your guidance is culture of the centrifuged deposit.
All guidance appreciated…..
#Microbiology
Friends in the USA / Canada
What is your national guidance for the laboratory processing of BAL fluid?!
In the UK we advise a semi quantitative culture to enumerate bacteria…..we have been told your guidance is culture of the centrifuged deposit.
All guidance appreciated…..
Who will do these tests?
Massive numbers of specialised biomedical scientists being made redundant.
Risk.
That’s the risk to the healthcare of all.
WGS of newborns when we can’t even lift children out of poverty.
Massive numbers of specialised biomedical scientists being made redundant.
Risk.
That’s the risk to the healthcare of all.
WGS of newborns when we can’t even lift children out of poverty.
All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years
All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years
Newborns will have whole genome sequencing to enable personalised healthcare that predicts and prevents illness
Every baby in England is to have a DNA screening to avoid fatal diseases and receive personalised healthcare as part of the government’s £650m investment in DNA technology, it has been reported.
Within a decade, every newborn will undergo whole genome sequencing, which assesses the risk of hundreds of diseases and is expected to form part of the government’s 10-year plan for the health service. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Who will do these tests?
Massive numbers of specialised biomedical scientists being made redundant.
Risk.
That’s the risk to the healthcare of all.
WGS of newborns when we can’t even lift children out of poverty.
Massive numbers of specialised biomedical scientists being made redundant.
Risk.
That’s the risk to the healthcare of all.
WGS of newborns when we can’t even lift children out of poverty.
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
📝 Registration now open! 📝
👀 Realising the potential of genomics to address AMR through precision public health in Wales
🎤 Professor Thomas Connor
📅 Wed 18th June @ 12
👉 Sign up: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
👀 Realising the potential of genomics to address AMR through precision public health in Wales
🎤 Professor Thomas Connor
📅 Wed 18th June @ 12
👉 Sign up: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
June 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
📝 Registration now open! 📝
👀 Realising the potential of genomics to address AMR through precision public health in Wales
🎤 Professor Thomas Connor
📅 Wed 18th June @ 12
👉 Sign up: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
👀 Realising the potential of genomics to address AMR through precision public health in Wales
🎤 Professor Thomas Connor
📅 Wed 18th June @ 12
👉 Sign up: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
How do you balance public health risk with individual rights? Here’s how we tried to do it in a complex XDR-TB case, great collaborative effort!
academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
A decision-making model for public health authorities in circumstances of potentially high public risk
academic.oup.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
How do you balance public health risk with individual rights? Here’s how we tried to do it in a complex XDR-TB case, great collaborative effort!
academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
thebiomedicalscientist.net/2025/05/02/m...
#biomedical
#lab #manager
Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️
Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST!
Please share and spread the word.
#biomedical
#lab #manager
Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️
Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST!
Please share and spread the word.
My lab: one of the most remote labs on earth
A guided tour of St Helena’s clinical and public health laboratories
thebiomedicalscientist.net
May 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
thebiomedicalscientist.net/2025/05/02/m...
#biomedical
#lab #manager
Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️
Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST!
Please share and spread the word.
#biomedical
#lab #manager
Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️
Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST!
Please share and spread the word.
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
Please support my students kickstarter to finish an educational wastewater video game we started building!
I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...
I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...
What the Floc: Educational Wastewater Video Game
Educational video game where players operate a wastewater treatment plant to protect the city and environment from pollution!
www.kickstarter.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please support my students kickstarter to finish an educational wastewater video game we started building!
I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...
I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...
thebiomedicalscientist.net/2025/05/02/m...
#biomedical
#lab #manager
Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️
Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST!
Please share and spread the word.
#biomedical
#lab #manager
Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️
Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST!
Please share and spread the word.
My lab: one of the most remote labs on earth
A guided tour of St Helena’s clinical and public health laboratories
thebiomedicalscientist.net
May 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
thebiomedicalscientist.net/2025/05/02/m...
#biomedical
#lab #manager
Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️
Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST!
Please share and spread the word.
#biomedical
#lab #manager
Have you ever thought about island life? St Helena needs a lab manager 🥼🏝️
Would suit someone with biomedical or food safety lab background - sense of adventure is a MUST!
Please share and spread the word.
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
Only through the enthusiastic engagement of the microbiology and infectious diseases communities have we managed to become greater than the sum of our parts. We look forward to the years ahead! 😊
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Only through the enthusiastic engagement of the microbiology and infectious diseases communities have we managed to become greater than the sum of our parts. We look forward to the years ahead! 😊
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
Have you had a baby hospitalized for RSV? I want to hear about it! Message me here or through accounts in my bio. Please boost!
May 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Have you had a baby hospitalized for RSV? I want to hear about it! Message me here or through accounts in my bio. Please boost!
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
📄 'Lost in the Bloodstream' brings together insights from NHS professionals to identify key challenges and opportunities in blood culture testing.
The new report outlines practical recommendations to reduce contamination, improve accuracy and support patient care.
🔗 www.ibms.org/resources/ne...
The new report outlines practical recommendations to reduce contamination, improve accuracy and support patient care.
🔗 www.ibms.org/resources/ne...
May 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
📄 'Lost in the Bloodstream' brings together insights from NHS professionals to identify key challenges and opportunities in blood culture testing.
The new report outlines practical recommendations to reduce contamination, improve accuracy and support patient care.
🔗 www.ibms.org/resources/ne...
The new report outlines practical recommendations to reduce contamination, improve accuracy and support patient care.
🔗 www.ibms.org/resources/ne...
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
The @nanoporetech.com #EPI2ME team is hiring!
If you want to build workflows to analyse @nanoporetech.com sequencing data for end to end applications then this job is for you!
ejnh.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
If you want to build workflows to analyse @nanoporetech.com sequencing data for end to end applications then this job is for you!
ejnh.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Bioinformatics Software Developer
We are looking for talented Bioinformatics Software Engineer to work within the Customer Analysis Workflows group who will be responsible for developing coherent bioinformatic software tools for end u...
ejnh.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The @nanoporetech.com #EPI2ME team is hiring!
If you want to build workflows to analyse @nanoporetech.com sequencing data for end to end applications then this job is for you!
ejnh.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
If you want to build workflows to analyse @nanoporetech.com sequencing data for end to end applications then this job is for you!
ejnh.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
Come on down, anyone eligible for a post-doc do consider applying for this exciting project with @jennyrohn.bsky.social, @scottishwormboy.bsky.social & me!
Got a touch of #UTISky #IDSky #ImmunoSky & 🧪 about it! 😉
Got a touch of #UTISky #IDSky #ImmunoSky & 🧪 about it! 😉
*JOB ADVERT LIVE!* Come be my next MRC-funded postdoc in London, studying uropathogenic E. coli virulence/host response in our lovely human urothelial microtissue model! Great collaboration with @gpollara.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social #UTISky #UTI Join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Come on down, anyone eligible for a post-doc do consider applying for this exciting project with @jennyrohn.bsky.social, @scottishwormboy.bsky.social & me!
Got a touch of #UTISky #IDSky #ImmunoSky & 🧪 about it! 😉
Got a touch of #UTISky #IDSky #ImmunoSky & 🧪 about it! 😉
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
Please apply if your interested in running a new adaptive platform trial for invasive Streptococcal infections. Will work closely with the #SNAP_trial team.
@thedohertyinst.bsky.social
Applications close May 20 2025.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92003...
@thedohertyinst.bsky.social
Applications close May 20 2025.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92003...
Details : Project Manager : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
April 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Please apply if your interested in running a new adaptive platform trial for invasive Streptococcal infections. Will work closely with the #SNAP_trial team.
@thedohertyinst.bsky.social
Applications close May 20 2025.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92003...
@thedohertyinst.bsky.social
Applications close May 20 2025.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92003...
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
ICYMI: Mexico has confirmed its first human case and fatality from #H5N1 avian influenza. A child in Durango with no underlying conditions died from respiratory complications. #IDsky #MEDsky
Read here: www.contagionlive.com/view/first-c...
Read here: www.contagionlive.com/view/first-c...
First Case and Fatality of AH5N1 (Avian Influenza) in Mexico
This case represents the second reported human infection with avian influenza A(H5) in Mexico, and the first confirmed case of influenza A(H5N1) in the country. The patient was a child who died from r...
www.contagionlive.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
ICYMI: Mexico has confirmed its first human case and fatality from #H5N1 avian influenza. A child in Durango with no underlying conditions died from respiratory complications. #IDsky #MEDsky
Read here: www.contagionlive.com/view/first-c...
Read here: www.contagionlive.com/view/first-c...
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
Test your infection knowledge through the LearnInfection Platform endorsed by consultant specialists on a wide variety of infection topics. Use your BIA members details to login 👉 learn.britishinfecti... #Infection #InfectionTrainee #IDSky
April 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Test your infection knowledge through the LearnInfection Platform endorsed by consultant specialists on a wide variety of infection topics. Use your BIA members details to login 👉 learn.britishinfecti... #Infection #InfectionTrainee #IDSky
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Super proud of this paper with @dralisongraham.bsky.social @mdillonphd.bsky.social et al.
In this work we reflected on how to make a conference session more accessible, did those things @microbiologysociety.org 🦠👩🏫 and the evaluated the session - and we made a difference 🥳🥳
doi.org/10.1099/acmi...
In this work we reflected on how to make a conference session more accessible, did those things @microbiologysociety.org 🦠👩🏫 and the evaluated the session - and we made a difference 🥳🥳
doi.org/10.1099/acmi...
Towards an inclusive conference experience: evaluation of the Education and Outreach Symposium at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2024
The Microbiology Society Education and Outreach Symposium serves as a platform for microbiology educators to share contemporary practices with an international audience. The Symposium is held yearly d...
doi.org
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Super proud of this paper with @dralisongraham.bsky.social @mdillonphd.bsky.social et al.
In this work we reflected on how to make a conference session more accessible, did those things @microbiologysociety.org 🦠👩🏫 and the evaluated the session - and we made a difference 🥳🥳
doi.org/10.1099/acmi...
In this work we reflected on how to make a conference session more accessible, did those things @microbiologysociety.org 🦠👩🏫 and the evaluated the session - and we made a difference 🥳🥳
doi.org/10.1099/acmi...
I absolutely love this! Thank you for sharing @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social 👏🏻
This is what you miss when you watch at home!
This is what you miss when you watch at home!
That’s a wrap on #ESCMIDGlobal 2025!
Thanks for Vienna for being such a wonderful host city! It was a great week of science and meeting colleagues and friends.
One of my favorite aspects was the Art Gallery depicting climate and infectious diseases
Thanks for Vienna for being such a wonderful host city! It was a great week of science and meeting colleagues and friends.
One of my favorite aspects was the Art Gallery depicting climate and infectious diseases
April 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I absolutely love this! Thank you for sharing @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social 👏🏻
This is what you miss when you watch at home!
This is what you miss when you watch at home!
Reposted by Phillipa Burns
Do you run a research lab working on Aspergillus? The Aspergillus Genomes Research Policy Committee is looking to host a list of Aspergillus labs on its webpage! Drop us a message with your lab website and a photo and we'll get it listed. Have a look here for inspiration aspgrpc.com/aspergillus-...
April 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Do you run a research lab working on Aspergillus? The Aspergillus Genomes Research Policy Committee is looking to host a list of Aspergillus labs on its webpage! Drop us a message with your lab website and a photo and we'll get it listed. Have a look here for inspiration aspgrpc.com/aspergillus-...
Almost GCSE exam time for my little artist! I absolutely love the “table takeover” 🎨🖌️🖼️
I’ve enjoyed watching #eccmidglobal from home & following the threads on here 🥰
I’ve enjoyed watching #eccmidglobal from home & following the threads on here 🥰
April 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Almost GCSE exam time for my little artist! I absolutely love the “table takeover” 🎨🖌️🖼️
I’ve enjoyed watching #eccmidglobal from home & following the threads on here 🥰
I’ve enjoyed watching #eccmidglobal from home & following the threads on here 🥰